AI search assistant with customizable agents and apps.
$1 per 1,000 pages is the way in, $1 per 1,000 pages is the tier that works.
Search API covers up to 100 urls per call, news endpoint included at no extra cost, llm-ready snippets with metadata, country and language targeting filters.
Published tiers top out at $110 per 1,000 calls.
You.com pivoted away from the consumer search product to focus on APIs in 2024-2025, leaving the consumer offering thin and confusing.
6 recurring complaints show up in public reviews, and 0 of them come up often.
Praise is just as consistent: 300ms p99 latency on search api is roughly 2x faster than competing web search apis, important for real-time agent applications..
A tracker priced to be tried rather than committed to.
The most frequently raised complaint: you.com pivoted away from the consumer search product to focus on apis in 2024-2025, leaving the consumer offering thin and confusing..
It reports where you stand. Turning that into published pages and earned citations is still work somebody has to do.
| Included | Search API$5 per 1,000 callsPay-as-you-go, $100 free credit to start | Contents API$1 per 1,000 pagesPay-as-you-go, batched requests supported | Research API (Lite)$12 per 1,000 callsLite tier; Standard, Deep, Exhaustive, Frontier also available | Finance Research API (Deep)$110 per 1,000 callsDeep tier; Exhaustive tier also available at higher price |
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| 1 | Up to 100 URLs per call | Multiple URLs per request | Cited, source-backed answers | Coverage of filings, macro data, markets |
| 2 | News endpoint included at no extra cost | Clean Markdown or raw HTML output | Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline | Derived financial calculations |
| 3 | LLM-ready snippets with metadata | Python SDK, MCP Server, REST API access | Inline references | Traceable source references |
| 4 | Country and language targeting filters | · | Ranked #1 in DeepSearchQA per You.com | Precision financial intelligence |
| 5 | 300ms p99 latency | · | · | · |
300ms p99 latency on Search API is roughly 2x faster than competing web search APIs, important for real-time agent applications.
SOC 2 certified with zero-data-retention options, which clears most enterprise procurement gates for AI builders.
Customer list includes OpenAI, Amazon, Alibaba, DuckDuckGo, and Salesforce, the strongest reference base in the AI search API category.
Pay-as-you-go pricing with $100 free credit removes friction for developers prototyping AI agents.
You.com pivoted away from the consumer search product to focus on APIs in 2024-2025, leaving the consumer offering thin and confusing.
Finance Research API at $110 per 1,000 calls is expensive enough to limit it to high-margin financial workflows only.
Limited public G2 footprint with only ~20 reviews makes social proof for procurement harder versus established APIs.
Pricing is purely metered, so monthly costs are unpredictable for high-volume use cases without committed contracts.
Search API
Real-time web search optimized for AI agents with 300ms p99 latency and structured LLM-ready snippets.
Contents API
Clean web page content extraction from any URL, returning Markdown or HTML at $1 per 1,000 pages.
Research API
Multi-step search and synthesis pipeline that returns cited, source-backed answers, ranked #1 in DeepSearchQA per You.com.
Finance Research API
Domain-specific research API covering SEC filings, macro data, markets, and derived calculations.
MCP Server
Native MCP server to plug You.com directly into Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and any MCP-enabled IDE.
Zero Data Retention
Enterprise option that ensures no customer query or content data is retained, important for regulated industries.
Buy You.com
Right when small budget, in-house team. You get the measurement, and the work of turning it into published pages and earned citations stays with your team.
Hire someone to run it
Right when nobody to act on it. Disclosure: this is what we sell, which is a reason to read us critically. It is also why every figure here carries the date we checked it, and every judgement carries the quote it came from.
AI search assistant with customizable agents and apps.
You.com starts at $1 per 1,000 pages per month, across 4 published tiers. Pricing checked 7 June 2026.
No free tier or trial is published for You.com.
The most frequently raised issue is: You.com pivoted away from the consumer search product to focus on APIs in 2024-2025, leaving the consumer offering thin and confusing.
A tracker priced to be tried rather than committed to. Buy the tool if small budget, in-house team. A managed service is the better fit when nobody in-house has hours each week to act on what it reports.
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